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Short Quotes About Flowers "I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular." ―Mary Oliver "The earth laughs in flowers." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...
"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." — Helen Keller "Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
But others use flowers as a metaphor for a greater message about love and life. Take Sheryl Crow's words, for instance: "No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle ...
The poem in fact explores, instead of asserting, the pantheistic union of man and nature through a quintessential life-and-death force. For all the poet shares with 'the crooked rose', either as destroyer or victim, he cannot make himself heard ('I am dumb to tell' is repeated five times as a refrain), a failure that unwittingly distinguishes a ...
43. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder. 44. “My mother is my root, my foundation.
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